Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 34: Canada Fandom: Another Proud Canadian Video
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Love him or hate him, but you can’t just ignore him.
Because Spike didn’t just walk into “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”—he exploded into it, catching everyone unprepared; he’s that kind of captivating character who can break your heart and make you laugh in the same breath.
Bleach-blond menace whose look was allegedly stolen by Billy Idol (not the other way around!), walking disaster wrapped in a leather trench coat, sensitive Victorian poet turned ruthless vampire turned Champion of good.
You can say what you want about Spike, but you can’t deny that he has layers—so many layers. He’s a walking contradiction between vulnerability and bravado; he wears snark and violence as a mask to hide an emotional depth that was undoubtedly William’s legacy. The same depth that will be his undoing, for better or for worse.
Spike wasn’t supposed to be a hero—he wasn’t even supposed to last more than a handful of episodes—but that’s where his journey ultimately brought him. A journey that was never truly spotless or linear and that admittedly hit many ups and downs, but that’s what makes him even more compelling as a character.
His evolution was raw and messy but also earned: redemption wasn’t simply handed to him, he had to claw his way toward it and rise from his own ashes.
Which is poetically ironic, in light of his last scene on the main show.
Buffy is the girl who carried the weight of the world on her shoulders and gave heroism a new dimension. She saved the world (a lot) with her supernatural strength and power, yes, but also with unwavering love, sacrifice, and a unique ability to put others first—almost to the point of self-sabotage.
Because Buffy’s strength isn’t merely in her fists, it’s first and foremost in her heart. She loves fiercely and unconditionally—her biggest strength and weakness all packed in one—but above everything else she’s vulnerable, flawed, and disarmingly human.
In a world that often glorifies power (alas now more than ever), Buffy is still here, over twenty years later, to show us how true strength lies in compassion.
She fought the good fight not for glory or for destiny, but because she believed that the world was worth saving—even at the cost of her own life.
And as we’re quite literally facing the downfall of humankind here in the real world, I find myself wishing that there was a little bit more of Buffy in all of us—myself included. Because this world really doesn’t look like it’s worth saving anymore…